Day 9
Sunday 20th May - A high level day to Glen Dee
Mic & I get away by 6am but due to some very hard going it took three hours to reach the Feshie. The path was very indistinct and we had to straight line to a forestry track and then down into the valley. We met the Geordie lad drying out his kit after falling in a stream yesterday; he seems a bit accident prone. We had a tea (orange) break and then walked down the valley to cross the Feshie on a rickety bridge. After about a 75 minute grind up a Landrover track we arrived on the plateau at noon. We did the first Munro, Mullach Clach a Bhlair, then returned to the track junction to retrieve our sacks then walked on a few ks before stopping for lunch.
We sat out a shower before doing the next two as a triangle, Meall Dubhag and Carn Ban Mor (both since demoted from the list) then picking up our sacks and heading for Monadh Mor and then Beinn Bhrotain. The going got very rough with a very dodgy river crossing as well. Monadh Mor proved relatively easy with a good cairn on the summit but Beinn Bhrotain proved to be a real bast**d. There was a steep rocky ascent with the last 200 metres over large patches of snow which we had to step kick through. When we arrived on the summit it was so dark that we had to take the photos with the aid of flash. We arrived back at the sacks just in time as the cloud closed in from both sides like a pair of curtains shutting visibility down to 30 metres.
It was a very hairy descent coming down by dead reckoning ending up in a very nasty gully which we had to climb out of. We pitched the tent in Glen Dee about 4km from White Bridge at 9:20. I crashed out for the night without even finishing dinner.
